Community interviewers are secondary school graduates, who undergo extensive training on data collection and physical examination led by KEMRI/CDC clinicians, including WHO Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) training videos [14].
Data collection and neurological examination will occur in the hospital.
Dr Habibzadeh helped in data collection and physical examination.
Dr Habibzadeh drafts the manuscript, participated in statistical analysis and helped in data collection and physical examination.
Finally, the field pilot showed that the procedures for invitation of selected subjects, for data collection and medical examination were quite satisfactory, and that only some marginal adaptations of the protocol were necessary; these are currently being implemented.
Thereafter, demographic data collection and anthropometric examinations were undertaken by trained general physicians.
For data collection and medical examinations standardised instruments will be applied, and detailed SOPs will be used in all centres.
A vigorous quality assurance program was implemented to ensure the quality of data collection and laboratory examinations.
A flow chart of the Health 2000 study questionnaire data collection and health examinations has been published as part of the Methodology report [ 42].
